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Yeah, maybe he was the twin brother of Abbot Cedric, who wanted to give the position to him, but Methuslah declined it, and said to pass it to Mortimer instead. Or Methuslah was acting Abbot until the Council of Elders, including him, chose Mortimer, who at the time, probbly was a young mouse.